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I'm telling you again, folks. The only real change in AFG is created by media managed perceptions and the cries for help from people afraid of being punished for loyalty to Ghani. Others have always maintained their good relations with the turbans. Ghani's traitors will be top men this year. And the Taliban won't depopulate its hard won nation State. It will try and win hearts now, become the orderly junta it has been trained by the ISI to be. It will be life as usual in the shariah shithole, and the people know it too. Women are screwed of course, but they weren't exactly living it up in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, no matter what they tell you.
Any ensuing boo hoo hoo is classic media amplified bourgeois overreaction in the west, to what is to islamics just another takeover. These perceived outrages help in fueling 'good intentions' which then give justification for the military industrial complex to keep wading in.
Just say 'Fuck it!' and disassociate from this Wrong Turn in history.
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Since we are doing hollywood remakes, this is "Run Out of Town on a Rail."
This whole decade seems to be cursed.
Sheet Mohn, we're Americans, we're just getting started. Well, technically, Council of Cao Pi, but we can all point and laugh at President Rocky Road. Well, those of us who are allowed out of the house.
There’s a cute little map at the link from Long War Journal showing who controlled what parts of Afghanistan, as of yesterday. Most is under Talib control, some is merely claimed, and northeast of Kabul there are eight districts in Panjshir province still belonging to the resistance.
[DW] Evacuation flights out of Kabul airport resumed early Tuesday as US troops secured the tarmac. American forces are also in charge of air traffic control. DW has the latest.
Flights out of Kabul resumed at 2:35 a.m. local time
Western leaders address the situation unfolding in Afghanistan
The Indian Embassy is the latest to announce it is closing
This story was last updated at 14:50 UTC/GMT. SALEH DECLARES HE IS THE 'CARETAKER PRESIDENT'
Afghan vice president Amrullah Saleh said on Twitter he is the "legitimate caretaker president" of Afghanistan.
Saleh said he had a security meeting last week with then President Ashraf Ghani. Saleh said that he was proud of the armed forces, and the government would do all it could to strengthen its resistance to the Taliban.
UK: TALIBAN COMPLIANT WITH EVACUATIONS
A British officer in charge of the UK's evacuation program, which is helping between 6,000 and 7,000 people leave Afghanistan, says Taliban commanders around Kabul airport have not sought to disrupt proceedings.
Royal Navy Vice Admiral Ben Key told the BBC that "pragmatic, tactical, low level" discussions have had to take place with the Taliban as they control entry points into the airport.
While conceding that it's only been a day and a half since the process got underway, Key told BBC Radio that the Taliban have been "acquiescent and understanding of what we're trying to achieve."
GERMANY WILL CONTINUE TO EVACUATE WHILE 'SECURITY SITUATION ALLOWS'
A German evacuation plane with "more than 120 people" on board left Kabul airport on Tuesday.
Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) said on Twitter that "Germans, Afghans and members of other nations" had been "airlifted" to safety. The process will continue as long as "the security situation allows," he added.
Later on Tuesday, Maas said humanitarian aid to Afghanistan had been frozen.
EU MINISTERS DISCUSS POSSIBLE ASYLUM INFLUX
Foreign ministers across the EU are in emergency talks over the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan amid concern that hardline Islamist rule will spark an exodus of people from the conflict-ravaged country.
Afghans are among the biggest group of migrants seeking sanctuary in Europe, after Syrians. According to EU estimates, around 570,000 Afghans have applied for asylum in Europe since 2015.
On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron aired his concerns over an influx of refugees coming to the EU. Macron focused his comments on warning against "Islamist terrorism" and "irregular migratory flows" in the wake of the unfolding crisis, while UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was keen for a softer, more welcoming stance, as he called on all countries to accept refugees fleeing from the dangers of Taliban rule.
This story was last updated at 12:31 UTC/GMT. CZECH REPUBLIC CONTINUES EVACUATION PROCESS
A second Czech plane left Kabul on Tuesday, evacuating Czechs and local staff, Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhanek confirmed.
The process of evacuating diplomats and civilians resumed earlier on Tuesday after the runway at Kabul airport was cleared of thousands of people desperate to flee.
The Czech Republic's first mission on Sunday evacuated 46 citizens and local workers, including family members. Tuesday's flight included the Czech ambassador to Afghanistan.
UZBEKISTAN ISSUES BORDER WARNING
Uzbekistan said it was in contact with the Taliban on Tuesday and warned it would "strictly suppress" any attempts to violate its borders after chaos from Afghanistan spilled over into Central Asia.
One of three Central Asian countries that has a border with Afghanistan, Uzbekistan released a statement after days of mayhem that saw Afghan troops illegally cross over into the republic while fleeing the Taliban.
The country's government said it was in talks with the Taliban "on issues of ensuring the protection of borders and maintaining calm in the border zone."
This story was last updated at 10:58 UTC/GMT. GERMANY HALTS AID TO AFGHANISTAN
Gerd Müller, Germany's development minister, said Germany has suspended development aid to Afghanistan.
In an interview with Rheinische Post, Müller said: "We are working at pace to evacuate from Afghanistan, those local development officials and NGO workers who want to leave."
The €250 million ($296.4 million) earmarked for aid for Afghanistan this year has not been disbursed.
CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR FLEES
Ajmal Ahmady, Afghanistan's central bank governor, announced on Twitter that he fled Afghanistan for an unknown location. Ahmady is a former US Treasury and World Bank employee who had worked in private equity.
He detailed his escape from the country aboard a military aircraft and his final days on the job.
On Saturday, the day before the collapse of the central government, he said there was currency volatility and he held meetings "to reassure banks and money exchangers". He added, "I can't believe that was one day before Kabul fell."
By Sunday night, he was at the airport where he saw other senior government officials preparing to leave the country. He booked a last-minute commercial flight for that night, which was canceled, but was pushed onto a military aircraft by close colleagues.
Ahmady said, "It did not have to end this way." He added he was "disgusted by the lack of any planning" and that once Ghani's departure was announced, "I knew within minutes chaos would follow."
PROFESSOR: MANY IN AFGHAN ARMY KEPT CLOSE TALIBAN TIES
Amalendu Misra, an international politics professor at Lancaster University in the UK, told DW, "the nation building exercise of the international community was only skin deep" because Taliban controlled rural areas.
Misra said the Afghan National Army failed to defend the country because, "Many of them were from the Taliban."
While security forces personnel took money from the central government, they remained sympathetic to the Taliban and were on "many occasions" working "in cahoots with the Taliban." Many felt that foreigners would leave eventually whereas they would remain in Afghanistan along with the Taliban.
Misra noted, "there are two Talibans here, the Taliban that emerged in the 1990s, most of them came from refugee camps in Pakistan who are sort of educated in a very fundamentalist style education" and "the new ones we have are born and brought up in Afghanistan. So they're more committed to their own country."
INDIAN EMBASSY IN KABUL TO CLOSE
India is closing its embassy and recalling its ambassador.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman, Arindam Bagchi, wrote on Twitter, "In view of the prevailing circumstances, it has been decided that our ambassador in Kabul and his Indian staff will move to India immediately."
EVACUATION FLIGHTS OUT OF KABUL RESUME
Military evacuation flights for diplomats and civilians out of Afghanistan resumed on Tuesday after chaos enveloped Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport as thousands of Afghans desperate to flee flooded onto the tarmac.
A Western security official told Reuters, "Many people who were here yesterday have gone home."
Afghan people climb atop a plane in the hopes of fleeing Taliban rule
Thousands of Afghans crowded the runway on Monday in a desperate bid to get out of Afghanistan after the capital fell to the Taliban
Late Monday, the German Defense Ministry said an air force A400M transport aircraft was able to leave Kabul with German citizens and local Afghan employees on board. The Uzbek capital Tashkent is serving as Germany's evacuation hub with people being ferried there by military transport before catching commercial flights to Germany.
General Hank Taylor, a logistics specialist on the Pentagon's joint chiefs of staff told news agency AFP that US forces were running military and civilian air traffic control at the Kabul airport. He said 3,000 to 3,500 US troops were on the ground by the end of the day Monday Washington time to secure the airport.
General Taylor said flights out of Kabul resumed at 2:35 a.m. local time.
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The eight districts of Panjshir province are Tajik — Northern Alliance territory. The native population — primarily poor and illiterate — numbers about 173,000. The capitol is Bazarak.
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The Von Paulus Travel Agency has been revived I see.
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Trump tonight said the Americans should have been taken out of Afghanistan, then the billions of dollars of military equipment, and then lastly the military personnel.
He said Biden evacuated the military personnel and left behind the American people and the military equipment.
In an inventory sense, and I know I was an advocate for quick withdrawal, what you want is 'First In Last Out' and what this is, is 'Last In Last Out'.
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The shelter in place notifications may have caused an unknown number of AmCits to delay fleeing to the airport. They are now effectively hostages in waiting and certainly at risk for retaliation and/or looting and worse. Hard to imagine the TB being benevolent about their disposition going forward.
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Depending on which Americans have been left behind the removal (official or otherwise) of any ROE restrictions might well be enough to get them out.
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^
A symptom you are infected by Sars-Covid-HIV2-lambda.
Finish your comments as fast as you can, and get the hell out of here, I don't want to catch it.
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Exactly who are these “Americans”, and what were they doing there?
What I'm picking up, and certainly no insider, is that after 20 years you have your usual spattering of Knaves, Good Wills, Commuters, Treasure Hunters, Adventurers, Translators, Appraisers, and Dumb Asses.
Any worth their weight, or the bollocks (kittens to be inclusive) on them, gone two months ago. Two weeks at the Brazillion shave.
[DefenceBlog] A prototype of the newest Russian IL-112V military light transport aircraft crashed during a flight in Kubinka outside Moscow.
The incident occurred during a training flight at the Kubinka air base. The cause of the crash is unknown.
Eyewitnesses report that the plane caught fire shortly before the crash.
All three crew members on board were killed when the Il-112V went down on Aug. 17. More at the link including a video of the last seconds of the flight
[AlAhram] "Taqqiya"
The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... declared an 'amnesty' across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government Tuesday, trying to calm nerves across a tense capital city that only the day before saw chaos at its airport as people tried to flee their rule.
The comments by Enamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban's cultural commission, represent the first comments on governance from a federal level across the country after their blitz across the country.
While there were no major reports of abuses or fighting in Kabul, many residents have stayed home and remain fearful after the turbans' takeover saw prisons emptied and armories looted. Older generations remember their ultraconservative Islamic views, which included stonings, amputations and public executions during their rule before the U.S-led invasion that followed the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
'The Islamic Emirate doesn't want women to be victims' Samangani said, using the murderous Moslems' term for Afghanistan. 'They should be in government structure according to Shariah law'.
He added: 'The structure of government is not fully clear, but based on experience, there should be a fully Islamic leadership and all sides should join'.
Samangani remained vague on other details, however, implying people already knew the rules of Islamic law the Taliban expected them to follow.
'Our people are Moslems and we are not here to force them to Islam,' he said.
Under the Taliban, which ruled in accordance with a harsh interpretation of Islamic law, women were largely confined to their homes. The hard boyz have sought to project greater moderation in recent years, but many Afghans remain skeptical.
Meanwhile Tuesday, Stefano Pontecorvo, NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... 's senior civilian representative to Afghanistan, posted video online showing the runway empty with American troops on the tarmac. What appeared to be a military cargo plane could be seen in the distance from behind a chain-link fence in the footage.
The runway 'is open,' he wrote on Twitter. 'I see airplanes landing and taking off'.
Overnight, flight-tracking data showed a U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J Hercules plane at the airport and later taking off for Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , home to al-Udeid Air Base and the U.S. military Central Command's forward headquarters. There were no other immediate flights seen in Afghan airspace, which has been taken over by the American military as commercial flights have been halted in the country.
Across Afghanistan, the International Committee of the Red Thingy said thousands had been maimed in the fighting. Security forces and politicians handed over their provinces and bases without a fight, likely believing the two-decade Western experiment to remake Afghanistan would not survive the resurgent Taliban. The last American troops had planned to withdraw at the end of the month.
Talks appeared to be continuing between the Taliban and several Afghan government officials, including former President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...One of the more egregious mistakes of the post 9-11 era... and Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... , who once headed the country's negotiating council.
An official with direct knowledge of the talks, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to brief journalists, said senior Taliban leader Amir Khan Muttaqi had arrived in Kabul from Qatar. Muttaqi is a former higher education minister during the Taliban's last rule. Muttaqi had begun making contact with Afghan politicians even before Ghani fled.
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"...and urged women to join its government Tuesday"
"Where it will make you easier to whip, if we can find you under that sack you'll be forced to wear."
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Thugs and goons. Just rubbing it in. It's how islamists operate. Make the women participants in their own enslavement and tell them Allah has given them this chance.
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Let the morning soy boys gush over it for 30 seconds, then segway off. Nothing to see here, not he boomer taliban baddies your evil krampus elders told you about, and just exactly what Biden planned for.
"Up next, how we want to keep your kids out of school and you locked up at home until you pass a purity test, and the weather report."
online showing the runway empty with American troops on the tarmac. What appeared to be a military cargo plane could be seen in the distance from behind a chain-link fence in the footage.
The runway 'is open,' he wrote on Twitter. 'I see airplanes landing and taking off'.
One trivial way the Taliban occupation force can shut down the Kabul airport is to simply let any local who wants to onto the grounds. Perhaps even spread the word that any Kabuli who wants to leave will be allowed to go. No shots need be fired. Several thousand panicking civilians can simply flood the airfield and so shut down all flights. Not enough US troops are there to deal with that possibility.
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Afghan Talib wimmen-sacks are cheap cloth and much more amorphous than that, GE9620.
That photo almost makes burkas look good, except for the philosophy behind them.
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That's the 2021 Runway Model from a Fashion Show off the innerwebs of a Moslem country possibly UAE. Stll a traditional look.
As you know, most people are naked under their cloths, so really it does serve a utilitarian purpose, keeping the sex hounds at bay. In more 'progressive Islamic countries' - burqas' are quite attractive attire for women, don't look like traditional 'sacks'.
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The Taliban... urged women to join its government
This is a genius move. Just the other day, some midlevel poobah at the UN was demanding the Talibunnies include women in their government. Now the UN Brahmins are outflanked and the Taliban are progressive. Woo Woo! That was fun. Let's do gays next!
No, this doesn't change a single thing in Afghanistan. But it does placate the international community and short-circuits any UN involvement. Now progressives can go back to hating Donald Trump with satisfied conscience.
[KhaamaPress] The United States Charge’ d’Affaires Ross Wilson on his Twitter post said that he and the embassy staff are still in Kabul and are helping Americans and vulnerable Afghans who are leaving the country.
The Tweet further reads that their commitments to Afghan people endure and the US embassy is continuing engagement in Afghanistan.
The US embassy’s mission is now solely focused on evacuating thousands of US nationals and the vulnerable Afghans who will also be relocated to a third country or directly to the US.
For the mission to get functioned flawlessly, US president Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan.... has directed the deployment of up to 6 thousand troops and warned the Taliban ...Arabic for students... to face a swift response if attacked.
The US envoy to Afghanistan though did not say anything about their current location in Kabul, there were reports about the embassy’s staff to be relocated to Kabul airport.
Ross Wilson issued an alert asking people to not go to Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... International Airport in Kabul until they get an e-mail from the embassy. There were thousands of people congregated in Kabul airport looking for any single chance to board any plane out of Afghanistan among them hundreds have boarded a plane on Monday night and flown out.
The alert comes a day after three people clinging to the tires of a US plane fall to death.
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Hey man that's why the Taliban caused all this ruckus in the first place; they were after the flags for a base theme for their new Islamic Am I right of Afghanistan flag... you know... to attract the Correct PC people to their cause.
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Any credibility to The Marines manning the local McDonald's?
[ToloNews] Hundreds of vehicles loaded with goods crossed Torkham pass on Monday after it was closed by Pakistain the day before, Rooters reported on Tuesday.
"The vehicles that arrived here last night were stranded for the last three, four days. When the gate opened yesterday, a lot of vehicles arrived here and trade boomed," said Hazrat Omar, a trader.
Pakistain closed the Torkham pass on Sunday as the Afghan side came under Taliban ...Arabic for students... control.
The Torkham pass was reopened for bilateral trade with Afghanistan later on Sunday.
Zahidulla Shinwari, director of the Pakistain-Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce And Industry, said they wanted peace and stability for trade irrespective of which government rules Afghanistan.
Taliban bully boyz took control of the presidential palace in Kabul as US-led forces departed and Western nations scrambled on Monday to evacuate their citizens.
Focussing on the small piece that is not their fault instead of the vast majority that they own.
[IsraelTimes] ‘The process could have been handled so differently,’ senior officer says of State Department’s costly delay in setting up ad hoc structure to withdraw US allies to safety.
[TWITTER]
In case anyone is wondering how what is happening in Afghanistan is possible… in May of this year, @SecDef Lloyd Austin identified climate change as the #1 issue facing the military. #2 was countering violent extremists in the military. #3 was team work with allies and agencies.
— Wade Miller 1️⃣7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣ (@WadeMiller_USMC) August 16, 2021
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So the Pentagon (or some part of it) is having a "you made us look bad" moment, but they'll still be ready to stomp down on all us white supremacist domestic extremist proles when their progressive masters tell them to.
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/\ Yes, and very likely with US dollars provided by the current administration in Washington. Unfortunately, our Top Men could not have predicted such an outcome befalling their feckless generosity.
[Breitbart] The Taliban, now in near-total control of the country, are going door to door in newly conquered Kabul searching for journalists and political opponents, according to multiple outlets on the ground.
Afghanistan’s Tolo News outlet posted on Twitter Monday that Taliban forces had confiscated its security staff’s weapons and assumed responsibility for protecting the office. Taliban officials have begun confiscating civilian weapons, claiming civilians no longer need to defend themselves because they will instead keep the people safe. Same lines as Democrats. "You don't need these, we'll protect you"
A senior journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL) said on Monday morning that the Taliban was targeting journalists and U.S. sympathizers, declaring on Twitter, "Kabul is now becoming deadly." Kandahar got started a bit earlier.
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After our withdraw, the North invaded. They were defeated by the South Vietnamese army. They received air support and material aid from Washington. Then the Donk Congress pulled all aid and forced Nixon out. The second North Vietnamese invasion succeeded.
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This imbecile was a senator when they cut aid to SVN he knew exactly what happened...ref Procopius. Yet he recites some narrative that sounds like he got it from Cher.
#5
Amazing that we were in Afghanistan so much longer than we were in Vietnam. Apparently we can never leave (as in Germany/Japan/Korea) if we want to ensure the peace. Good to know next time we think about this sort of thing.
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There will be no 'next time'
With this one (AFG) we were -pushed into it by 9/11/01-
25 years after Nam. You ain't living in the same America you were in say 2016 BT (Before Trump) You are in 2021 AT (After Trump) - The Psychotic Covid World - Post US Constiturional World - The Illegal is Legal if I say so' world of Chi-Com-Democrats-Boss Puppet Joe World.
Closing Time - Last Call for Alcohol - Drink Up 👆
We Are Going Out of Business Now - Thank You for Your Patronage - Bon Voyage Mon Ami - Auf Wiedersehen - Guten Nacht!
Then Where will you go ?
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Fred's about 1/3 the age of our Constitutional Republic, founded 238 years ago, our nation founded 245 years ago (2026 - 250 years) and 1/2 the age of the Statue of Liberty and about equal with World War Two ✌, He Could Have Children who are a 1/2 Century Old or More (be two years short for applying for Social Security)
He and his crew have run this place for ABOUT 20 YEARS - It would be appropriate to retire Rantburg on or about its Anniversary Date
Estimated value of Rantburg.com is $881.02. What IP addresses does Rantburg.com resolve to? • Rantburg.com resolves to the IP addresses 50.211.175.109. Where are Rantburg.com servers located in? • Rantburg.com has servers located in Washington, District of Columbia, 20011, United States.
With other assets, it might be worth in total $7,500 - $9,999.
Take the Money & Run
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So The Rantburg Defender-Scimitar and Times-Picayune
is 19 years and 2 days old
[EpochTimes] More than 3,000 fake COVID-19 vaccination cards from China have been seized by federal agents in Memphis, Tennessee, en route to other cities in the United States.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) caught a shipment from Shenzhen, China, to New Orleans that contained 51 blank counterfeit vaccination cards, CBP said in an Aug. 13 statement.
"It was the 15th such shipment of the night," the statement reads.
The FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... stated on March 30 that buying, selling, or using counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination cards is a crime, and violators will face a fine and up to five years in prison.
White House coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... response coordinator Jeff Zients also said on Aug. 13 that it’s "a crime" to falsify COVID-19 vaccination cards, amid new restrictions set by several major cities.
After New York City announced that it would mandate vaccine passports at certain businesses starting next month and as a growing number of colleges and universities across the country are requiring vaccination for students to attend in-person classes, there has been a surge in the fraudulent documents.
FAKE CARDS
"This fiscal year to date, Memphis has made 121 seizures totaling 3,017 of these vaccination cards," the CBP statement reads. "They are always from China."
The shipments were all described as "Paper Greeting Cards/Use For-Greeting Card" or "PAPER PAPER CARD."
"The cards have blanks for the recipient’s name and birthdate, the vaccine maker, lot number, and date and place the shot was given, as well as the Centers for Disease Control [and Prevention] (CDC) logo in the upper right corner," the statement reads.
But CBP officers knew the cards were fake because "it was imported by a non-CDC or medical entity, and this was not the first time they had seen this shipper."
Why go to the Black market?
The US Media has provided the world with 100's to full color hi-res digital photos of both sides and even samples of the data used on the cards.
Heck Wisc. about 4+ months ago, posted clean printable imagines of C-19 VAX cards on its State-Gov site.
So anyone with a photo quality Color printer could use Wally World store bought 80 lbs bond paper. Print up Fake ID's, good enough to get past Stores and restaurants.
But remember the state and most likely the Fed's are tracking actual VAX'd taken card holders.
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So, lessee. What percentage of the illegal drugs does USGOV successfully interdict? What percentage of fake luxury items? What percentage of substandard Chinese-made aviation hardware? Going on that, how many of these fake cards are now in circulation? They're not like credit cards or drivers licenses with holograms. Pretty much any print shop could make em. Hell, you could probably make them yourself with a laser printer that can handle medium card stock.
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And, as I have asked before, how long before I, carrying a legitimate vaxx card that I was issued when I did get vaccinated, am arrested for 'possession of a falsified document" because it would be so damn easy you just about have to believe that was the plan all along?
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KNOCK yourselves out...
Last one Canada - U know The Frozen North---
This post was for illustration only, not for advancing any illegal activity...
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Government uses vaxx documents to screw with me. Cui bono?
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stated on March 30 that buying, selling, or using counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination cards is a crime, and violators will face a fine and up to five years in prison.
If there isn't a law, how can this be against the law?
"it was imported by a non-CDC or medical entity, and this was not the first time they had seen this shipper."
Get'chr fake cards only from approved sources. I'm just sure getting your $100 bill at the McDonald's Jab and Drive Thru is immaculate in its records.
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I have been flummoxxed trying to find the crime of possessing a document regarding vax status, not used as a form of identification for any other purpose. As I understand it, the crime associated with fake Vaxx cards is the illegal use of an official government seal, nothing to do with your vax status. SO a subtle altering of the seal on the fake card should render that moot, thereby being defense against arrest. Anyone who is actually a lawyer have an opinion?
[Rudaw] Iraqi forces arrested several Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) suspects across the country on Sunday, a top military spokesperson said, with state media reporting a suspected ISIS leader was killed as forces raided his home north of Baghdad.
Intelligence forces raided Hassan Ismail’s house in the al-Khazna district of north Baghdad, state media reported, claiming he was killed in ensuing festivities.
Seven other ISIS forces of Evil were arrested in Nineveh province on the same day, Iraq's top military spokesperson Yehia Rasool said in a tweet.
ISIS seized control of swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in Iraq in 2017 and Syria in 2019, but remains a threat on both sides of the border, carrying out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions across several provinces.
The forces also seized materials and explosives from two other suspects that were arrested in Kirkuk and Tuz Khurmartu. Three ISIS hideouts were also destroyed.
Iraqi forces on Saturday morning launched a large-scale security operation to clear out the group’s remnants in northern Baghdad. A number of suspects were arrested.
Four ISIS members were arrested by the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service (ICTS) in various operations across the country on Friday.
The operations follow numerous ISIS attacks against the country's electricity grid, leaving millions across central and southern Iraq without power.
Iraqi forces have reported thwarting tens of attacks on the electricity towers, and in an emergency security meeting on Friday, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi ordered the establishment of a crisis cell to ensure the power grid is protected.
In its propaganda magazine, ISIS claims to have carried out 134 attacks on electricity towers between June 6 and August 10. Its claimed activities have not decreased, despite Iraq’s security efforts, as the group said it carried out 33 attacks on power pylons in the last week alone.
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[IsraelTimes] Defense Ministry says Gazook importers worked with Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, front companies designated as terror groups by Israel; sales of the chocolate bars would have profited Hamas’s military wing "It's for our Little Leagues and Bobby Sox"
Israeli security officials captured and confiscated a shipment of 23 tons of chocolate bars headed to the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip they say was part of a network financing Hamas military operations in the territory.
Tax Authority officials intercepted the shipment as it passed from Egypt into Israel at the Nitzana border crossing, before it headed to Gaza. Officials were working off information provided by IDF intelligence and the Defense Ministry’s National Bureau for Counterterror Financing, a statement from the Defense Ministry said.
According to Israeli officials, the chocolate bars were being brought into the Strip by importers working with two Gazook companies, the al-Mutahidun Currency Exchange and Arab al-Sin, that belong to the Shamlakh family and serve as Hamas fronts. al-Mutahidun and Arab al-Sin are designated as terror organizations by Israel, which says sales of their imports in Gaza help finance Hamas’s military wing.
"Al-Mutahidun" means "the challengers" or "the confronters" in Arabic and is sometimes used when referring to confronting or challenging Israel.
"Israel will continue to act to prevent Hamas from growing stronger," Defense Minister Benny Gantz said in a statement after signing a confiscation order for the chocolate bars.
Israeli officials believe Hamas has taken control of a great deal of Gaza’s import industry, including basic staples, in its pursuit of income streams for the organization that bypass Israeli and international sanctions and blockade restrictions.
"Business dealings with these companies are illegal, and will lead to severe penalties against those involved," an Israeli official told the Ynet news site on Monday.
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Towards the beach on a dark windy night
Drifted that which would finance their fight
As soon as each brother
Had purchased another's
Selection of Turkish delight!
[Garowe] The Somali National Army [SNA] soldiers have killed over 279 al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... Death Eaters across the country in the last month, something which further gives hope in the war against the murderous Moslems, who have been causing havoc across the nation.
State media and a top military official confirmed the successes on Monday, amid the ongoing operations in most parts of the Horn of Africa country as the Senate election started.
Al-Shabaab has been fighting to topple the fragile UN-backed Somalia administration for over a decade now but has not managed due to a stable military in Somalia, mostly comprising of foreign troops.
During the month-long operation, the military managed destroyed 20 hideouts and four vehicles laden with explosives, according to Somali National Television. As many as five towns and 16 villages were also liberated.
The military, which is set to take over security responsibilities once the AMISOM team leaves upon full implementation of the Somali Transition Plan [STP], is currently reinstating civilian administrations in towns that were liberated.
The action took place in Hiraan, Middle Shabelle, Lower Shabelle, Lower Juba, and Mudug regions of south and central Somalia, state media reported. For the last year, the military has been trying to liberate as many regions as possible.
The al-Qaeda affiliated group frequently carries out attacks on civilians and armed forces in the East African country. It wants to remove the government and impose its strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law.
Recently, the US announced the possibility of redeploying its soldiers in Somalia following January's shock exit. There are also ongoing talks on how to reconstitute AMISOM, which has been very instrumental in pushing for peace and stability.
The progress also comes about two months when the country's army chief Odowaa Yusuf Rageh announced that about 300 al-Shabaab Death Eaters had been killed in the months of May and June this year.
[BenarNews] Indonesian police said Monday they had arrested 48 suspected Islamic bandidosbandidos bad boys during nationwide raids in recent days as part of efforts to stop "acts of terrorism."
The arrests of 45 suspected Jemaah Islamiyah bandidosbandidos bad boys and three people with alleged ties to Jamaah Ansharut Daulah ...founded by our old friend Abu Bakar Bashir of Al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah fame, JAD translates cleverly as Partisans of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Continued on Page 49
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[IsraelTimes] Suspect, said to be from Jenin, was carrying a firearm with ammunition, a meat cleaver and other weapons near the settlement of Ma’ale Levona
An armed Paleostinian man dressed up as an Israeli soldier was arrested near the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Levona on Monday, officials said.
Israeli residents of the area spotted the suspect walking along Route 60 and alerted local authorities, who informed the military, the Binyamin regional council said in a statement.
Israel Defense Forces soldiers stationed in the area arrested the suspect and searched the large bag he was carrying.
The Paleostinian was found to be carrying in his bag a firearm with ammunition, a meat cleaver, a smaller knife, and pepper spray, footage showed.
According to Hebrew-language media reports, the man is from the West Bank city of Jenin. At least four Paleostinian suspects were killed in a shootout with Israeli troops in the city early Monday morning.
It was not clear if the two incidents were related.
The IDF said the suspect was being interrogated.
The incident came amid heightened tensions in the West Bank and in the city of Jenin specifically.
According to the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... , some 57 Paleostinians have died during confrontations with Israeli soldiers this year, the highest toll since 2016. Some were killed during violent mostly peacefulfestivities with troops, while others died in more ambiguous circumstances.
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Hopefully these impersonators are tried and found guilty of being espionage agents (dressed as military),
and summarily shot by firing squad on the date of being found guilty.
[OneIndia] Hindus and Sikhs from Afghanistan will be given priority once commercial flight service begins from Kabul, India said today, a day after Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... took control of the city.
"We are in constant touch with the representatives of Afghan Sikh and Hindu communities. We will facilitate repatriation to India of those who wish to leave Afghanistan," the MEA spokesperson said.
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"There are also a number of Afghans who have been our partners in the promotion of our mutual developmental, educational and people-to-people endeavours. We will stand by them," he said.
"Commercial operations from Kabul airport have been suspended today. This has forced a pause in our repatriation efforts. We are awaiting the resumption of flights to restart the process," he said.
"The situation in Afghanistan is being monitored on a constant basis at high levels. The Government will take all steps to ensure the safety and security of Indian nationals and our interests in Afghanistan," Bagchi added.
Afghanistan crisis: India bringing back its officials from KabulAfghanistan crisis: India bringing back its officials from Kabul
Capping its month-long rapid advances, the Taliban took positions in Kabul hours after Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury... left the country on Sunday for an unknown destination, paving way for a bloodless takeover of the capital city but triggering fear, chaos and uncertainty among its residents.
On Monday, thousands of desperate people converged at the Kabul International Airport in hopes of getting on an evacuation flight and leaving the country.
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Or we could bring the Afghans who were not corrupted in the Ghani regime, because that would mean they're of the strongest moral fiber. Make them work for us in the north. Hunting dirty deobandi moslems, the kind who killed their friends and took their country. Entrapment ops, undercover, false flag. Then settle the high performers up in Tajikistan, farmhouse, college for kids, insurance everything. We could even convert some of them to christianity easily. They will be assets in the time to come, when we gut Pakistain.
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Sometimes we get our best assets from people who have denounced the mohammed yet continue to live as moslems. Reverse taqiya if you will. There will be some like that fleeing the new AFG.
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So you know all about rugged terrain
the hills, the valleys, the mountains,
and how to sweep the creepers out...
not to mention the best way to move a body...
Thanks... now I know why your postings make sense.
They're doing it wrong. You first seal it in plastic, tape it tightly so gasses can't escape, then it goes into the rug. Even then it all makes a smelly mess later so you have about 36 hours to ... 'make the sale' so to speak.
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To the rug thing, I heard a guy on Stern back in the day when he was on radio. The guy did that sort of thing for the mob (or so he claimed, who can say) and he'd take the body to the shower with a hacksaw. Then it could be removed easily. He also admitted very few had the stomach for that kind of work.
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I would think India would have gotten these people out months ago. Moslems have a problem with the Abrahamic faiths but they have a real issue with non Abrahamic religions.
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Naw. I don't like to own toyboys. I prefer children irrespective of gender-preferably untouched ones and dancing boys. Whom I can educate, play with and turn them into happy, productive adults.
[P.S. I'm not interested in grooming.]
[Independent] A new photo from the evacuation of Kabul reveals how nearly 650 Afghans were crammed onto one US Air Force transport plane in the scramble to escape the Taliban.
The image from Sunday shows roughly 640 Afghans who had been cleared to evacuate crammed inside the C-17 Globemaster II cargo jet - far more than the aircraft’s designated load of passengers.
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Worked the evacuation from Jordan for Indian civilians from Kuwait during the first months after the invasion. Five loads of pax departed on Antonov cargo birds before ICAO put a stop to their operations. They’d load 5 rows of pax facing aft with their legs open, the next row seated in their lap - then stretch a cargo strap as restraint for the group. Repeat. Had an estimated 700 pax per flight. They got a bottle of water and an apple as they walked on the ramp and nil restroom access en route. That was the old refugee record I was aware of. We were operating a ghost 747 in 501 seat configuration and I thought that was chock a block. 28 cycles of refugees before we pulled the plug. Refugee evacuations and embassy extractions are a goat rope in the best of times but Kabul is a fiasco. The crux will come when they collapse the perimeter security and the real surge for the exits begins. Wouldn’t be surprised if there are a few engines lost to human FOD
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That’s a lot of moochers and terrorists coming to a town near you
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#7, don't give them any ideas.
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Remember Trump wanted to be out in May. Given the amount of planning to execute that, the operational plans should have been sitting there already for a later withdraw to simply implement. This cluster indicates that the JCS is incapable of performing its mission or basically refused to do the mission. Heads should roll.
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Its a photo shown to inspire pride, ingenuity, but as SP4300 notes, well, maybe you can smell a photo.
To me it looks like the city slicker gone camping, got surprised by a case of self inflicted poos, and thought himself clever grabbing the nearest bunch of ivy for cleaning up.
Points awarded to P2K, other than the toxic masculine white rage racist last comment (sentence is racist). Repatriate your Legos to the nearest BIPOC education center H8TR.
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The crux will come when they collapse the perimeter security Or as I mentioned elsewhere, the Taliban could simply let anyone onto the airport grounds, spread a false rumor that anyone who shows up will be evacuated, and a vast crowd that the US forces can't handle will overwhelm them and shut down all flights except perhaps for choppers from rooftops.
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[IsraelTimes] UN nuclear watchdog says Tehran produced 200g of material enriched up to 20%, in further departure from deal.
With the chances of a return to the 2015 nuclear deal fading, Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has progressed with producing uranium metal, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Monday.
"On 14 August 2021, the Agency verified... that Iran had used 257g of uranium enriched up to 20% U-235 in the form of UF4 (uranium tetrafluoride) to produce 200g of uranium metal enriched up to 20% U-235," the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency wrote, according to Rooters.
Uranium metal can be used as a component in nuclear weapons. Iran had signed up to a 15-year ban on "producing or acquiring plutonium or uranium metals or their alloys," under the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed in 2015 with world powers.
Iran previously told the UN nuclear watchdog that it was advancing research on uranium metal production, saying it is aimed at providing advanced fuel for a research reactor in Tehran.
The IAEA added that the move was step three in a four-step plan, the fourth being the production of a reactor fuel plate, according to Rooters.
But Iran has insisted its nuclear activities are peaceful and that it is not aiming at building a weapon.
Former United States president Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... pulled out of the deal in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions that have choked Iran’s oil-dependent economy. Iran has responded by walking back measures it had agreed to abide by, including enriching uranium to unprecedented levels, near weapons-grade.
Talks kicked off in April in Vienna to find a way to bring both parties back to the deal. But the last round took place on June 20, with no date set for when they would resume. The EU chairs the meetings.
US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... , Trump’s successor, has signaled his readiness to return to the nuclear deal and has engaged in indirect negotiations with Iran alongside formal talks with the agreement’s remaining parties, Britannia, China, La Belle France, Germany, and Russia.
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For Stinky stuff and Giggles, lets say its a given they have built a 10+ KT dirty nuke.
But I'd bet y'all saying they could never get it into the USA.
So let me share some publicly available historical info. Back in 2002, then Senator Biden was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He asked a few US nuclear labs IF a terrorist group could construct an Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) nuclear weapon using nothing but commercially obtainable parts. It took them just a few months to report back YES and with a working model. They also did so without any illegal activities and avoided setting off any NEST warning flares.
Then Biden had them bring their home-built device to the Senate, minus the Nuke source.
See congressional recordCREC-2002-06-26
Start reading at Page 11 bottom right and continues. But the real interesting part is page 13 lower left column and continues.
So the question is NOT IF, BUT WHEN & WHERE a Iranian type Nuke will be popped. Followed by what will Tehran look like 30 days later.
"Late in 2001, two containers containing enormous amounts of radioactive strontium-90 were found by
hunters in the woods of the Republic of
Georgia. The sources were so hot that
they melted the snow for yards around,
leading the three woodsmen to cart
them off to warm their tent."
[SpaceNews] Blue Origin has filed suit against NASA in federal court, arguing that the agency failed to properly evaluate its proposal for the agency’s Human Landing System program, a procurement won by SpaceX.
Blue Origin filed suit Aug. 13 in the Court of Federal Claims, which has jurisdiction over bid protests after reviews by the Government Accountability Office. The company sought a protective order, sealing documents it filed in the case. The court granted that protective order Aug. 16.
The company said it requested the protective order “to protect confidential, proprietary, and source selection information contained in the Complaint, and other filings and hearing transcripts in this bid protest.”
Only in the motion to seal filings in the case did Blue Origin explicitly state that the case was about the HLS “Option A” award that NASA made to SpaceX in April. “More specifically, this bid protest challenges NASA’s unlawful and improper evaluation of proposals submitted under the HLS Option A BAA,” or broad agency announcement, the company said in the motion.
“Blue Origin filed suit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in an attempt to remedy the flaws in the acquisition process found in NASA’s Human Landing System,” the company said a statement to SpaceNews. “We firmly believe that the issues identified in this procurement and its outcomes must be addressed to restore fairness, create competition, and ensure a safe return to the Moon for America.”
Blue Origin and Dynetics filed separate protests with the GAO in April, arguing NASA improperly evaluated their proposals compared to SpaceX, and that NASA erred in making only a single award rather than revising the competition or canceling it entirely. The GAO rejected those arguments, denying the protests July 30.
The GAO went into more detail about its denial of the protests in an Aug. 10 public version of its decision document. It found no evidence that NASA improperly evaluated the proposals, concluding that “the record adequately supports NASA’s evaluation of the protesters’ proposals and was consistent with applicable procurement law, regulation, and the terms” of the solicitation.
The GAO also concluded that NASA was within its rights to make only a single award, as the agency made clear in the Option A solicitation that it could make multiple awards, a single award or none at all.
During the GAO protest, NASA halted work on the HLS award to SpaceX, but transferred $300 million to the company on July 30, the day the GAO denied the protests. It was not immediately clear if the Blue Origin suit in the Court of Federal Claims will force another stop-work order on the contract.
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The issue is what the different companies are trying to achieve. SpaceX is about launching things into space. Blue Origin and ULA are more about farming the government for contracts.
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Maybe they plan on building a rocket-pad on the roof (like a heli-pad but more flame resistant). If Elon Musk can land a rocket on a boat, he can land a rocket on a building.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] A young Chinese woman says she was held for eight days at a Chinese-run secret detention facility in Dubai along with at least two Uighurs, in what may be the first evidence that China is operating a so-called "black site" beyond its borders.The woman, Wu Huan, 26, was on the run to avoid extradition back to China because her fiancé was considered a Chinese dissident. Wu told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named she was kidnapped from a hotel in Dubai and detained by Chinese officials at a villa converted into a jail, where she saw or heard two other prisoners, both Uighurs.
She was questioned and threatened and forced to sign legal documents incriminating her fiancé Wang Jingyu, 19, for harassing her, she said. She was finally released on June 8 and is now seeking asylum in the Netherlands.
While "black sites" are common in China, Wu’s account is the only testimony known to experts that Beijing has set one up in another country. Such a site would reflect how China is increasingly using its international clout to detain or bring back citizens it wants from overseas, whether they are dissidents, corruption suspects, or ethnic minorities such as the Uighurs.
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The love of my life and wife is from Taiwan. This post about an announcement by the Peoples Republic China shows me that Biden and the Democrats are happily sending her family - my in-laws - to hell. It was once nice to be a citizen of America but the demoncrat coup has turned it into hell. May an afterlife exist and all Demoncrats go to HELL.
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3dc - My favorite actress is a Taiwan woman Lin Li-hui better known by her stage name as Shu Qi. She is one of the most badass martial arts actresses and a film of hers has won the best international film awards at the Caine Film Festival. Taiwan cinema is much better than Hollywood these days in my opinion.
My favorite singer is Russian, Natalia Tsarikova (Наталья Царикова) an accomplished Opera Singer but loves to tune up US Pop music.
The love of my life is a amazing Brazilian Amazon Beauty (because she grew up along the Amazon in the rain forests of Brazil).
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Shu Qi is Taiwanese? I'm a fan too. Loved her in this Jackie Chan film, where he was wooing her. Also was in Transporter playing a damsel. Her lips... oh my!
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Abandoning Taiwan to focus on more important areas is a common result in wargames when the participates are confronted with multiple crises at once.
Let's not ignore a lot of Taiwanese want reunification with the mainland. The KMT weren't exactly nice people. They ran a police state for decades.
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The power and money in Taiwan is probably finishing its exit plans. I would not be surprised if they handed Taiwan over to the PRC from their Swiss embassy in the near future. They have to know they cannot stand up to the PRC without confidence in massive US backing, which cannot be there anymore.
[ToloNews] The city of Kabul noticeably changed during its first day under the rule of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... The majority of shops, businesses, government institutions and offices were closed.
Traffic was sparse, but some residents traveled in private cars.
The public presence of women was noticeably reduced, with no large gatherings of women in the city, which would have been common on other days.
Speaking to TOLOnews, a number of residents said that the government institutions must reopen as soon as possible so that the people can carry on with their affairs.
Some Afghans expressed concern over the presence of illegal gangs in the city. Some residents pledged to avoid leaving their homes.
Deh Afghanan is the main area in the city of Kabul and is usually very crowded, but on Monday it was quiet.
"There are serious concerns there, the situation is very different, lets see what happens next," said Ghulam Dastagir, a resident in Kabul.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the Taliban front man said that the situation in Kabul will return to normal soon.
"The government institutions should reopen as soon as possible, people need services," said a resident in Kabul Ehsanul Haq.
"Today four thieves under the name of Taliban stole the city," said a resident named Tawab.
"One case of flour was sold for around 1700 Afs, but now it is sold for 2100 Afs," said Kabul resident Aminullah.
The Taliban brought down Afghanistan’s largest flag from Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul.
After the collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , people in Kabul got up on the morning of August 16th with literally no Afghan government personnel in the capital.
The Afghan capital is occupied with the members of the Afghanistan Islamic Emirate and the residents of Kabul are barely seen on the streets.
The Taliban are manning security of government facilities and are busy evacuating the facilities that are still manned by Afghan government forces.
Schools and universities are off and most of the street shops are also closed.
Thousands of men, women, and children have gathered in front of Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...Former president of Aghanistan, part of the problem not part of the solution... International airport so that they get a chance to fly out of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti... thousands of others are still inside the airport awaiting any chance to get on a plane and leave the country but the administration of the airport announced that no plane is flying out of Kabul thus, the people are requested not to storm the airport and leave its vicinity.
The Taliban, driving Rangers, Humvees, cycle of violences, and their personnel vehicles, are apparently patrolling the Kabul and are guiding the traffic on some squares.
Thousands of youths are out of their homes just to see how the Taliban members look and are busy taking photos with them.
The Presidential Palace is submitted by the former deputy security in charge of the palace to Zakir Qayum.
Zakir Qayum is a member of the AIE’s military mission and is said to be in charge of protecting the Presidential Palace until the power is transferred.
Nebba hoppen, as we used to say during my war.
[FOXNEWS] On "Sunday Night in America," Congressman Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J. called on President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... and several other Democrat leaders to resign following the disaster in Afghanistan.Following Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. troops, Taliban ...Arabic for students... forces quickly seized control of Afghanistan, leading to the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy and Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... to flee the country.
Fox News host Trey Gowdy asked the congressmen, "how did we get to this point in Afghanistan?"
"My God, it is one of the darkest, most embarrassing days we’ve had in our country, and it’s a tremendous embarrassment for the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... .," Van Drew said. "But with this administration it is failure after failure after failure. Honest to God, I cannot believe I'm saying this, it literally is time for this president to resign. it is time for this vice president to resign. It is time for the Senate president and Speaker to resign. We need new people, even new Democrats, hopefully that are moderates. We can’t keep doing this."
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If Biden had any decency left in that corrupted old carcass of his he would resign. But watching his speech yesterday I was rather rudely reminded that he has no decency. Never has.
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You want Kamala? Or Nancy?
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Pelosi will not be VP or President, that's not how it works. Remember Gerald Ford by any chance?
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As much I dislike biden being illegally in office due to massive voter fraud. Getting the hell out of a now meaningless ground in a tickel poor manner is not a biden issue... its a Pentagon issue. Let some Stars take the heat for their screwups for a change.
Thanks to Joe Biden, the Taliban returns to power stronger, more secure, and well-equipped to wreak havoc on anyone in the world of their choosing. He turned over military bases and the records of those who helped the CIA and the USA, which now allows the Taliban to collect and torture thousands of those who foolishly trusted Biden and the USA.
It did not have to end this way.
President Trump gave Biden a plan to evacuate Afghanistan, saving lives and dignity, while not arming the Taliban with the best equipment in the world. He learned from the Fall of Saigon, which happened on Biden's watch as a senator. America left behind equipment and people who helped us. Worse, we left behind our own children, the GI babies who were ostracized by society.
Donald Trump was determined not to do that again.
Biden did it anyway.
President Trump told Miranda Devine of the New York Post what his plan was.
He said, "We were going to not let people get slaughtered. I wanted to get out. But you have to get out safely and you have to get out with respect."
His plan was an American one in which women and children leave first.
He said, "All civilians were going to come out before the military. Everyone should have been out before they took our military out."
Amen.
The richest men on the Titanic went down with the ship. That is how honorable men behave.
Our soldiers are honorable. They would have been the last to leave. And they would have left no equipment or base behind. Read the rest at the link
[The Blaze] On the radio program Monday, Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere agreed that a Taliban takeover might have happened eventually under President Donald Trump — especially with plans to pull U.S. troops out of the nation entirely — but there's "no way" it would have happened the way it did under President Joe Biden.
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Oh, yes he would because the mutinous GOs at DoD obviously refused to have plans in place. Those he could 'fire', removed from their billets. See - Truman/MacArthur.
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Where is the shame? Where are the resignations?
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There are none, nor will there be...it'll all go away in the 1.5 week news cycle...August 31, 2021 another major JRB,jr. cockup will have happened...trust him on this.
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Congressman Doug Lamborn recently questioned Defense Secretary Austin & Joint Chief Chair Milley About Afghanistan
What they said should get them fired today
The ministry said on Monday that an improvised bomb planted by snuffies went off on Sunday in a region where The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... was conducting a cross-border operation against snuffies from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
According to the ministry, two Ottoman Turkish soldiers were also maimed in the incident.
According to Press TV, in a separate incident, another Ottoman Turkish soldier was killed and one injured in a shootout with Kurdish snuffies near a Ottoman Turkish military base.
Ottoman Turkish military forces launched operations Pence-Simsek and Pence-Yildirim on April 23 in northern Iraq’s Metina and Avasin-Basyan regions in pursuit of PKK bad boys.
Several Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed in Duhok’s Metina area on Sunday, the Ministry Defense said on Monday, as Ankara continues military operations in the Kurdistan Region.
Three soldiers were killed in an IED explosion and two others were heavily injured in the Claw-Lighting operation, the ministry said in a statement.
Duhok’s Metina area is the focus of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s most recent operation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Turkey has launched a series of operations against the PKK in recent years. In April, it launched Operation Claw-Thunderbolt, and Operation Claw-Lightning targets the Avashin and Basyan areas further east.
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Just another indication that Iraq cannot control its border with Turkey. So should we call it a failed state? However, the USA cannot control its border with Mexico. So should we call it too a failed state?
[All Africa] The rapid gains made by Mozambican and Rwandan government forces against Islamic bully boyz in the country's northern Cabo Delgado region is giving new hope to thousands of civilians who have been trapped in the conflict for over a year.Humanitarian organizations, including United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... agencies, who had been forced to abandon the strategic town of Mocimba da Praia after bully boyz overran it last year, could now return and offer life-saving services. The pull-out left residents without food and medical supplies.
After Rwanda deployed 1,000 soldiers last month, Mozambican government forces started reclaiming territory from the gang linked to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS). Mocimva da Praia had fallen to the bully boyz in August last year, but Mozambican Defence spokesperson Omar Saranga said the joint forces last week took control of government buildings, the port, airport and hospital -- important installations in the town.
Mozambican and Rwandan forces are now working on securing surrounding villages, which are still under the control of murderous Moslems, according to Zenaida Machado, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch's Africa Division. This has paved the way for humanitarian organizations to return to Mocimboa da Praia.
"The government should immediately facilitate rapid and unimpeded humanitarian access to Mocimboa da Praia, meeting obligations as a member state of the Kampala Convention, an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... treaty on internal displacement, and under international humanitarian law," she said.
Ms Machado said the Mozambican authorities must move quickly to ensure humanitarian aid reaches local residents, who have been trapped in the town for more than a year.
"The Mozambican government should move quickly to fully secure Mocimboa da Praia town and surrounding villages before residents return to their homes," said Ms Machada, adding, "Failure to do so could place thousands at risk from further attacks by al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... and fighting between the group and government forces."
Besides Rwanda's firepower, Mozambique's fight against the Islamists has been bolstered by the arrival of forces of other Southern African Development Community countries.
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[AmGreatness] Institutions are being absorbed not just by the woke apparat, but by an array of ideologies that seeks to destroy them.
The collective madness that ensued from the pandemic, the quarantine, the self-induced recession, the George Floyd killing and subsequent months of exempted riots, the election year, and the resurgence of variants of the Chinese-engineered coronavirus, all ignited the fuse of formerly inert socialist dynamite. And the ensuing explosion of revolutionary fervor in just a few months has made America almost unrecognizable.
"Workers of the world unite!" was the old Marxist internationalist war cry. The perceived enemies of coerced socialism were nationalism— and the idea of singular countries defined by borders containing unique citizens legally distinct from mere migratory residents, and sharing ties and traditions that transcended race and class. All that is now problematic.
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Yes Victor
We are in the midst of a take over, overall outcome is very murky for our future, since we are no longer the United States of America but rather the un united states in America.
Frankly, the country hasn't stood up to the illegality and corruption in our midst for a long time.
It turns out that the Afghan Super Tucano in reality collided with the Uzbekistan MiG-29 and both aircraft crashed.. Overall 22 military aircraft and 24 military helicopters with 585 armed servicemen flew from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan on August 14-15.https://t.co/CoLLsjKNok
An Afghan Air Force plane crashed last night in Surxondaryo, Uzbekistan and two people were recovered from the plane in wounded condition. They have been shifted to medical facility by Uzbek authorities. It is believed that they were trying to escape from Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/5TclTck3DL
[EN.MEHRNEWS] The exact location of the runaway Afghan president is unknown, but he is said to have traveled to Oman to escape to the United States.The Taliban ...Arabic for students... effectively sealed their control of Afghanistan on Sunday, pouring into the capital, Kabul, and meeting little resistance as President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... fled the country, the government collapsed.
It was initially reported that Ghani along with National Security Adviser Hamdullah Muhib and head of the administrative office of President, Fazel Mahmood Fazli left Afghanistan for Tajikistan. But Dushanbe denied that.
It was then said that he had traveled to Uzbekistan.
Ghani has been accused of treason by Afghans and presently, no official information is available from his location.
Afghanistan Defence Minister Bismillah Mohammadi, in a tweet apparently referring to President Ashraf Ghani and his associates, lamented that they "tied our hands behind our backs and sold the homeland, damn the rich man and his gang".
Head of High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... , in a video clip, said that Ghani left Afghanistan.
He said that he left the people of Afghanistan in mess and misery and he will be judged in futurity.
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I'm guessing he'll have to leave the carloads of cash in Oman before that happens.
[MEDIAITE] Presidential historian and CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... contributor Tim Naftali argued that it’s fair to compare the Fall of Saigon to Kabul’s descent into chaos, now that the Taliban ...Arabic for students... has taken control of the Afghanistan capital.
Naftali joined CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield on Sunday to discuss the implications of Kabul’s fall and the US’ scramble to evacuate allies and American citizens from the country. Whitfield noted that the conversation was occurring hours after Secretary of State Antony Blinken went on a media tour to defend the Biden crime family administration ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... ’s approach, where the secretary of state insisted there was no comparison between Kabul and the end of the Vietnam War.
Asked whether it was "a fair comparison," Naftali called it "a very fair comparison." While he acknowledged Blinken’s argument that the U.S. accomplished its original goals in Afghanistan, Naftali explained how that excursion snowballed into America’s broader campaign in the Middle East with no clear picture of what victory would look like.
"In 2011, let’s not forget, we killed the late Osama bin Laden ...... who is now beyond all cares and woe...... ... But we stayed in Afghanistan," Naftali said. "From that moment on, for the last ten years, our government has been trying to figure out what our mission should be, how to declare victory."
Naftali further mused that Biden made the withdrawal decision in order to follow through on ending "a mission he didn’t believe in anymore." He further warned of the possibility that Afghanistan will once again become a sanctuary for radical Islamic extremism.
"If that occurs," he concluded, "this is the Saigon moment for President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?...... , and this will be an albatross around his neck for the rest of time."
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I was going to question the use of the word ‘may’ when ‘shall’ or ‘is’ seems more appropriate, but then I remembered there are over 3 more years of this sh!tshow.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, Also known as "Al-Hashed al-Shaabi" mourned today a commander who was martyred in a Ottoman Turkish bombardment in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The PMF said in a statement on its official website that the Sinjar Protection Forces’ military official, Saeed Hussein, died as a result of the Ottoman Turkish bombardment in Sinjar district, northwest of Nineveh Governorate.
He added that the bombing resulted in the death of Saeed’s bodyguard and the injury of three other fighters.
The Shingal Resistance® Units (YBS) announced in a statement the death of its senior commander, Said Hassan, in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... by the Ottoman Turkish army in Shingal district early Monday.
"The invading genocidal Ottoman Turkish army carried out an airstrike in Shingal at 12:10 today. The attack was directed at a military vehicle and resulted in death and injuries," the YBS said in the statement, reported by ANF.
They later said in a separate statement on Twitter that Hassan and his cousin and YBS fighter Isa Khwededa were killed in the attack. Three civilians - Medya Qasim Simo, Shamir Abbas and Mirza Ali - were maimed as well, they added.
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[ForeignBrief] A notable agenda item is deliberation on inserting additional national laws into Annex III of Hong Kong Basic Law. This allows for the possibility of adding China’s recent Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, which permits retaliatory measures by Beijing against anti-China sanctions. In China’s increasingly tit for tat foreign relations, applying the law would open the door for a measures to be taken against Western critics of Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong.
Expect the Standing Committee to propose including the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law in Annex III. Beijing has used the pandemic to further control the territory and remains unlikely to relent. Doing so increases Chinese leverage to respond to Western critics, but elevates aggression reserved for Hong Kong to the international level. The law will be unlikely to deter sanctions related to Hong Kong but would move the city closer to a breaking point in the long-term.
Drop pallets, not crates of 5.56mm and 40mm minimum.
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Amrullah Saleh, Vice President of Afghanistan and Ahmad Massoud, son of Ahmad Shah Massoud spotted in Panjshir.They are bringing all Anti-Taliban commanders together in Panjshir. This province is still free from Taliban. pic.twitter.com/bgb8hUdfwi
[ZH] After two decades of unceasing conflict, the Taliban completed their return to power on Sunday, triumphing over the unparalleled American military machine and its puppet government in Kabul. And as Afghan women begin the process of readjusting to life under an ultra-conservative Islamic Emirate, even foreign journalists are donning the hijab.
CNN's Clarissa Ward, who has been covering the Taliban takeover live from Kabul (she even scored an exclusive interview with Taliban militants), donned the hijab on Sunday for a report on CNN's "New Day" program where she focused on the changes already underway now that American forces have fled and the Taliban has regained total control of the country.
Presented without further comment, here's Ward before...
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[NYPOST] Only hours after Minnesota GOP operative Anton Lazarro posted online DNA evidence that allegedly shows Rep. Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... was once married to her brother, the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... busted him. The test results stated there is a 99.999998 percent chance that Omar and her second husband, Ahmed Elmi, now her ex-husband, are siblings, according to an analysis by British company Endeavor DNA Laboratories. But before Lazarro could share the results with the media, he was arrested Thursday on underage sex-trafficking charges and nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! pending a court hearing Monday. Boy. Wotta coincidence.
His website, IlhanOmarDNA.com, containing the DNA test results, was online briefly before it was taken down Wednesday. Boy. Wotta coincidence.
Lazarro and a group of conservative donors had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on three continents hiring private Sherlocks to track down Elmi Omar’s ex-husband in the UK and procure his DNA from a drinking straw. Omar’s DNA, Lazarro’s website claimed, was extracted from saliva on a cigarette butt she was photographed smoking.
Omar previously has denied Elmi is her brother, calling the claim "absolutely false," "absurd" and "offensive."
Special Agent Joy Hess, from the FBI’s Twin Cities field office, which investigated allegations that Omar married her brother Elmi to get around US immigration laws, says the "statute of limitations" had run out on the case. In a recorded conversation with an associate of Lazarro, posted on his website Wednesday, Hess also said the FBI could not pursue the case because Omar’s ex-husband Elmi had moved overseas.
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The FBI has been awfully busy tracking... Now,just what is it they do?
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Classic tactic, stall and claim inability to comment on investigative matters, and let the clock run out quietly. Who wanted his career terminated for arresting a Black, Muslim, Immigrant, Somali Democrat Congresswoman, triggering every -ist meme on record? Careerism is the primary obligation for agents after enough time is invested. A few brave souls regain their testosterone gland function after 20...most don't.
[All Africa] Human rights groups have warmly welcomed the official clarification made by The Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by The Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... government elucidating that the administration of President Adama Barrow is not in any way involving or participating in the former Gambian dictator's returning to the country.
They described the formal announcement as "calming and reassuring".
Labelling the report of Yahya Jammeh's return as "totally false", The Gambia government also said that it is not part of the so-called "Malabu Declaration".
Already, Human Rights Watch has outlined that "Yahya Jammeh's 22-year rule was marked by "widespread abuses including forced disappearance, extra judicial killings and arbitrary detention", thus the campaign to bring "Yahya Jammeh to justice without further delay" is now gathering momentum.
Document seen by The Point "On the purported return of the ex-Gambian dictator" revealed: "It is the duty of the Gambian government to promote and protect all human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... ... to avoid the source of conflict especially during an election year... respect fundamental rights of Yahya Jammeh's victims by prosecuting him and his associates... regardless of any political, economic and cultural issues".
It disclosed further: "For the interest of peace and security in the country... as well as reassuring the diplomatic and donor community, the official announcement by the government of The Gambia is an important transition from tyranny to democracy".
Rights groups also noted that it is "significant and highly valued" for the Government of The Gambia to "take a clear stance and set the records straight" regarding the matter.
They described the Malabu Protocol as a "scam".
Consequently, right groups pointed out that the government's announcement that the so-called Protocol "only exist in the minds of rumour mongers and not in its diplomatic files is "truly reassuring."
Furthermore, TRIAL International also equally maintained that "Yahya Jammeh should never enjoy impunity from international law"; and therefore, the government's clarification on the matter is of "great significance."
Right groups said that "human rights are inherent to all human beings including Gambians, and are guaranteed by law; thus, the formal announcement is commendable.
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[C4ISRNET] New satellite images show a chaotic scene Monday at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan as the United States government and its allies worked to withdraw remaining personnel from the country.
With the capital falling under Taliban control on Sunday, Aug. 15, hundreds of people rushed to the airport in hopes of securing a flight out of Afghanistan. Civilians flooded the tarmac, with some reports of deaths as individuals clung to aircraft during takeoff.
New satellite images from commercial provider Maxar Technologies show crowds gathering at the airport at 10:36 a.m. local time on Aug. 16. According to the company, one image shows a Turkish airliner preparing to takeoff while security forces attempt to hold back crowds from the active tarmac, preventing them from blocking flight operations. Other images show traffic jams as people flee to the airport, as well as huge crowds gathered on and around the tarmac.
Imagery company Planet also released two satellite images of the scene in Kabul taken 45 minutes apart, which show crowds arriving at the airport.
Planet's SkySat captured two images of the Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan today, August 16th, at 8:26 and 9:11 UTC - just 45 minutes apart. The imagery gives a near real-time look into the deteriorating situation. pic.twitter.com/Qwa6GyZuM7
— Planet (@planet) August 16, 2021
The Pentagon acknowledged Monday afternoon that flights out of Kabul had been grounded, as the military worked to clear people from the airstrip.
"We’ve certainly seen all the dramatic video coming from the airport today and we obviously don’t want anyone else to get hurt," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters. "So we’re going to work methodically in coming hours to restore a safe and secure environment so that air operations can resume.
At Least 10 People Killed in Chaos at Kabul Airport
[ToloNews] At least 10 people were killed in the chaos at Kabul airport after crowds of thousands flocked to the area on Sunday afternoon and into Monday with the hope of leaving the country.
People entered the airport from all sides despite the presence of US forces as well as troops from other nations attempting to secure the evacuations of their respective citizens and Afghan local staff.
Shots were fired and a stampede ensued, both of which caused fatalities. AFP, quoting the US Pentagon, reported that US forces killed two armed people. Two other people were killed after they fell from a US military airplane in flight after takeoff. The people had apparently grabbed onto the aircraft from the outside.
Some eyewitnesses said that 10 were maimed.
Airport officials said that people were misinformed about available flights, and entered the area after all flights had stopped. Many of those present did not have passports.
In one video being shared widely on social media, scores of people ran alongside a large US military aircraft as it attempted to take off.
"People flocked to the airport out of fear, and unfortunately there are casualties," said Ahmad Shah Katawazi, a former official.
Despite the panic, Taliban ...Arabic for students... commanders in Kabul pledged that the people’s safety is their top priority.
"I ask my people to stay calm and to not be concerned. We are here to serve them," said Qari Khalid, a Taliban commander.
The last runway out of Kabul: US transport jets face complex
[AirForceTimes] The Bagram and Kandahar airfields — former military aviation hubs for the U.S.-led coalition — are now in the hands of the Taliban. That leaves the Kabul airport’s single runway as the sole remaining option for getting people to safety.
And it’s happened much faster than the Biden administration anticipated.
“All of our plans were predicated on the notion that we thought that the Afghans were going to be able to hold Kabul,” said William Wechsler, a Middle East expert at the Atlantic Council who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations and combating terrorism in the Obama administration.
Now the U.S. and its allies must work through a unique set of challenges: securing and controlling evacuation work at the shared civilian-military airport amid chaos; vetting tens of thousands of people afraid of being left behind, and keeping the Taliban at bay.
The Biden administration should deem the effort a “noncombatant evacuation operation,” which would trigger a formal set of steps for an orderly departure, Wechsler said.
He suggested the U.S. and its allies may need a greater military presence at the airport to maintain control of the entire site while tens of thousands of people process through. The Pentagon estimates it can ferry about 5,000 people out of Afghanistan each day.
Command and control of U.S. jets going into and out of Kabul partially falls to airmen manning the Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. They handle matters like scheduling the lineup of planes at the Afghan airport and coordinating the movement of air traffic, but maintaining calm and order on the ground remains outside of their purview.
That struggle was made plain Monday, when all air operations at the Kabul airport temporarily stopped due to security concerns posed by insurgent fighters who have gained control of the Afghan capital, as well as throngs of Afghan citizens swarming the facility in an attempt to leave.
No military or civilian aircraft could enter or exit the airport while American forces in AH-64 Apache helicopters tried to clear people from the tarmac.
The single runway was mobbed as a U.S. Air Force transport jet, a C-17 Globemaster III flown by airmen from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, carved its way through the crowd. Videos showed frantic Afghans running alongside the massive aircraft, clinging to its sides and — for a tragic few — plummeting back to earth as the C-17 climbed into the sky.
At least seven people have died in the airport melee, the Associated Press reported Monday, citing senior U.S. military officials. American troops killed two people who were carrying weapons, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.
The U.S. may get some respite from an unlikely ally: The Taliban established a 2-kilometer buffer zone around the airport to keep Afghans from rushing the building and airfield, said Joe Saboe. The former U.S. Army infantry officer who served in Iraq now acts as a spokesman for a group of former U.S. military and federal employees who are trying to help more than 50 people leave Afghanistan.
One stunning C-17 flight carried about 640 refugees to Qatar on Sunday — a crowd believed to be among the largest ever flown on the Globemaster III, Defense One reported Monday. The military declined to answer a query from Air Force Times on the flight by the 436th Airlift Wing out of Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.
“Panicked Afghans who had been cleared to evacuate pulled themselves onto the C-17′s half-open ramp. … Instead of trying to force those refugees off the aircraft, ‘the crew made the decision to go,’” a military official told Defense One. Several other jets also reportedly took off with hundreds of people on board.
Bombing may be underway in the capital of 5 million people, if briefly. The AP reported Monday that one of its journalists “saw what appeared to be an airstrike target two vehicles near the airport.”
When asked whether aircraft that were recently dispatched for last-ditch airstrikes inside the country, including platforms like B-52 bombers and AC-130 gunships, are still operating, AFCENT spokesman Phil Ventura replied, “Out of concern for operational security, we have nothing to share … regarding force posture at this time.”
Enemy forces have so far held their fire as U.S. jets rotate in and out of Kabul. The city is flanked by mountains that stretch across much of the country and have hidden insurgents during the 20-year war, raising further security concerns about ambushes amid the withdrawal.
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The U.S. may get some respite from an unlikely ally: The Taliban established a 2-kilometer buffer zone around the airport to keep Afghans from rushing the building and airfield, said Joe Saboe.
If/when the Taliban open the buffer zone and assuming enough locals will swarm the place, that will likely be the end of all US sponsored fixed wing operations from the Kabul airport.
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[NYPOST] At least 16 people were maimed in a series of shootings across the Big Apple in about a two-hour span on Sunday night — including eight struck in one incident on the grounds of a Brooklyn public housing complex, authorities said.
The bloodshed began minutes before 11 p.m. Sunday when three men were struck by gunfire on Westgate Street near 140th Avenue in Springfield Gardens, according to cops.
A 20-year-old man was shot in the right shoulder, a 23-year-old man in the left leg and a 27-year-old man shot in the lower back, police said. All three were taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in stable, pH balanced condition.
About 40 minutes later, another man, 32, was shot on Nostrand Avenue near Park Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, cops said.
He is also listed in stable, pH balanced condition.
Then around 12:15 a.m. Monday, a 20-year-old man was shot in the face during a traffic dispute on 101st Avenue near 90th Street in Ozone Park, Queens, police said.
He was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center, also with non-life-threatening injuries.
Back in Bedford-Stuyvesant, eight people — five women and three men — were shot on Dekalb Avenue near Marcus Garvey Boulevard, on the grounds of NYCHA’s Roosevelt Houses, around 12:30 a.m., according to sources.
"We have a large group of people gathered in front of 927 DeKalb listening to music," NYPD Deputy Chief John Chell said during an early-morning presser. "We have approximately two shooters that come off of Pulaski Street, and fire into this crowd."
A 22-year-old woman was grazed in the nose, two women, 21 and 19, shot in the thigh, an 18-year-old woman struck in the shoulder, another 18-year-old woman hit in the stomach, two men, 23 and 27, shot in the shoulder, and an 18-year-old man blasted in the right hip, authorities said.
All were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
An officer from the 81st Precinct was down the block when he heard the shots, Chell said. Numerous 911 callers reported the gunfire, he said.
Three more people — including a 16-year-old boy — were shot at about 12:40 a.m. inside a Mercedes-Benz at Schenck Avenue and Atlantic Avenue in Cypress Hills, cops said.
The 16-year-old, who was shot in the head, is listed at death's door, cops said.
The two other victims, an 18-year-old man blasted in the arm and a 19-year-old woman struck in the leg, suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
The victims were taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, cops said.
No arrests were immediately reported in the shootings.
"Listen, anytime there’s a shooting, it’s a red flag," Chell told news hounds of the string of shootings. "Whether these are connected, we don’t believe so, but that remains to be seen also. And, you know, we’ll be working through that to see if there’s any connections."
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Amateurs. Sixteen shot is a warm spring day in Chicago.
Kurt Schlichter [TOWNHALL] Ignore those pictures of the Afghan army that our military big shot geniuses spent 20 years and zillions of dollars on disintegrating in the face of a pack of glorified mountain banditos from the Seventh Century — the real story is that, finally, America’s fighting men and women are fully aware of the urgency of accepting and validating the trans experience. And it's even better if said trans people are BIPOC. Plus differently abled.
Our broke, woke armed forces would be a hysterically funny punchline if the joke wasn’t, "The greatest military in human history walks into a bar, puts down trillions of dollars and buckets of American blood, and asks the bartender, ’So, what would it look like if all the generals and admirals sucked-up to the garbage establishment that has totally failed the people of the USA?’"
Yes, it is a joke, a sick one. Fire all the generals. Invite a few back, maybe a dozen. Clean out the Pentagon. Can all the "Diversity Consultants," "Equal Opportunity Officers," "Climate Change Mitigation Specialists," and every other strap-hanging oxygen thief who doesn’t contribute to the only thing the military should be focusing on right now — putting Chi Coms in graves.
Yeah, there’s been a strategic failure of epic proportions by our civilian establishment. We need to fix that at the ballot box by tossing out every Democrat and every Liz Cheney ...Faux Republican hereditary congresswoman-for-life from Wyoming. She has been described as Republican royalty. A staunch Never Trumper, Liz supported the second impeachment of Donald Trump for his role in the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Publicans dumped her from her leadership position in May 2021. Refusing to admit that she had trashed her own career, Cheney has said that she intends to be the leader... in a fight to help to restore our party and that she may be interested in a future presidential run.... -esque combat tourist who delights in sending our young people overseas to get ground up in idiotic wars designed to enrich their cronies. Hardest hit at the end of Afghanistan: Haliburton, Raytheon, KBR, and a hundred other contractors you never heard of. Oh, and the Afghan people, but they never really figured into this calculus except in the abstract idea that we were going to convert a nation of savages into Lil’ Vermonters living the Norman Rockwell dream of community democracy. It goes on from there, pulling no punches and right as rain.
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[BLOOMBERG] President Nicolás Maduro ...Commie el presidente para la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground. Unlike Qadaffy and Hugo Chavez, he's not dead yet... said negotiations with the opposition to break a five-year political impasse in Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... "got off to a good start," and that he will also propose direct talks with the U.S.
Maduro said discussing sanctions directly with the U.S. government is a pivotal issue he wants addressed in order to advance negotiations with the country’s opposition, which started in Mexico last week.
"The lifting of sanctions is central to us: it’s either that or nothing," Maduro said, speaking at a presser.
Maduro’s request is not included in the five-point memorandum of understanding signed last week to end years of political stalemate and help the nation to recover economically, which includes respect for political rights and the Constitution, an electoral timetable and guarantees, and an end to both state violence and sanctions.
Maduro said the Mexico talks over the weekend were "successful" so far. But in line with public events in the past, where he has demanded the normalization of diplomatic ties with the U.S., he said his delegation will request "direct" talks with the Joe Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... at the negotiations mediated by Norway, which will resume Sept. 3-6.
Maduro hopes that such face-to-face talks will allow diplomatic representatives of both countries to return to their posts, and that partial agreements can be reached soon before the process ends, which could take months.
So far the White House has been reluctant to engage with the authoritarian leader.
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Let it be said that the soldier doesn't really fight for the pogs insisting on long term strategy and the eggheads crunching numbers in their offices. The soldier does what his convictions tell him, that his country has decided, for whatever reason, that he is required to tear the designated enemy a new one. He goes where the enemy is, and kills him dead. And for me that is enough.
These ROEs dictated out of thinktanks and rights committees, droves of islamophile journos and legalist JAGs... it is them who neuter our best efforts even before we get there.
Pacifists and naysayers will never understand the concept of violence as the underlying principle of the universe, and how necessary it is to harness it without cracking.
[Breitbart] British intelligence services have reportedly intercepted communications from murderous Moslems in Afghanistan indicating that UK jihadis have travelled to Afghanistan to join the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Phone calls intercepted from war-torn Afghanistan have revealed jihadis with British accents living among the Taliban. It is believed that the British fighters smuggled themselves into the country following the withdrawal of American military personnel.
"We have received some intercepts of two British men, probably below 30, talking openly on mobiles," a senior military intelligence source told The Sun.
"One had a London accent, what you might call a street accent."
Another security service source reported that the government has "intermittent intelligence" indicating that British fighters have joined forces with the Taliban.
Colonel Richard Kemp CBE, who previously served as a commander of British forces in Afghanistan, said: "Many British and other foreign jihadists travelled to Afghanistan before and after 9/11 to fight there and, in many cases train, organise and then travel elsewhere for jihad.
"The more gains the Taliban makes, the more it will encourage jihadists to carry out attacks at home and also head for Afghanistan.
"If the country, or a large part of it, is permanently controlled by the Taliban it will again become a safe haven for faceless myrmidons as it was before 9/11.
"We are on the verge of a threat no less than that from [the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ] at its height."
In a statement, the government said that British Talibs "pose a very serious national security risk," and that "The Home Secretary has a number of powers available to prevent the return of individuals who pose a national security risk to the UK.
"Those who do return must expect to be investigated by the police."
It is believed that around 800 British nationals travelled to Iraq and Syria to join forces with the Islamic State, many of whom have been allowed to return to the country, often without being prosecuted for anything.
Last year it was revealed that Britannia’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency was aware of at least 43,000 suspected faceless myrmidons living in the United Kingdom.
There have long been concerns over the connections between UK-based terror cells and radical Islamists in Afghanistan, with then-Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson warning in 2018: "We consistently see terrorist groups operating here in Afghanistan, [and] evidence of their links back not just to the United Kingdom but to the whole of Continental Europe."
With the country falling into chaos amid a bungled withdrawal by the Biden Administration, the British government has called on its citizens to evacuate Afghanistan. Some 600 British soldiers have been deployed back into the Islamic republic to help with rescue missions of the estimated 4,000 UK citizens in the country.
[NYPOST] Air raid sirens sounded in southern Israel on Monday after a rocket was fired from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, the first since the 11-day war between Israel and Paleostinian hard boyz in May.
The Israeli military said in a statement that it identified one rocket launch that was intercepted by aerial defense batteries.
Amateur video footage appeared to show the rocket being intercepted over the southern town of Sderot.
The rocket fire could jeopardize three months of relative calm since Israel and the hard boy group Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,, which rules the Gaza Strip, struck a cease-fire.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the rocket fire. It came hours after Israeli troops clashed with Paleostinian button men during a late-night arrest raid in the occupied West Bank, killing four Paleostinians in one of the deadliest battles in the area in years.
The fighting erupted in Jenin, a city in the northern West Bank where tensions have been high since a man was killed in fighting with Israel earlier this month.
Israel’s paramilitary border police said its forces were attempting to arrest a suspect when they "came under heavy fire from close range" by a number of button men. It said Israeli forces returned fire, and none of its officers were maimed.
The official Paleostinian news agency WAFA said four men were killed by Israeli fire and a fifth was seriously maimed.
Amateur footage from the scene appeared to show an intense exchange of gunfire in the streets of Jenin.
Senior Paleostinian official Hussein Al Sheikh accused Israel of "a heinous crime" and tweeted that "the international community should be ashamed of its silence about this and its failure to provide protection to the Paleostinian people from this oppression."
Paleostinian faceless myrmidons fired two rockets from the Gazoo Strip toward the town of Sderot on Monday afternoon in what appeared to be the first such attack since May’s 11-day conflict in the Paleostinian enclave, the military said.
The Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted one of the rockets, while the second landed inside the Gaza Strip. The attack triggered sirens in Sderot, as well as the the communities of Ivim, Nir Am and Erez in the Sha’ar Hanegev region of southern Israel, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
The launch came after repeated threats by Paleostinian terror groups in recent weeks over the slow pace of Gaza reconstruction and the entrance of Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i money into the Strip, following May’s conflict, known in Israel as Operation Guardian of the Walls.
The various terror groups in the Gaza Strip, chiefly Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... — known collectively as the joint operations room — were scheduled to gather later Monday to determine how to proceed in their ongoing ceasefire negotiations with Israel, but called off their meeting, apparently fearing an IDF strike.
The Islamic Jihad’s military wing, the al-Quds Brigades, acknowledged that one of the people killed, Nour Jarrar, was a member of the organization, distributing a photograph of him aiming an assault rifle.
"The blood of our deaders will not be spilled in vain," the al-Quds Brigades said in a statement.
Two other suspects killed in the shootout — 19-year-old Ra’ed Abu Seif and 21-year-old Saleh Amar — were identified as being members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
The fourth person killed, Amjad Husseineh, was later claimed by the Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, terror group as one of its members. Hamas said Husseineh had perished during "heroic fighting at dawn in Jenin."
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[ABCNEWS.GO] "[U.S.] leaders were told by the military it would take no time at all for the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... to take everything," an anonymous U.S. intelligence official told ABC News. "No one listened."
Among the intelligence that sources said was shared with the administration were claims that some members of Pakistain's intelligence services, who helped create and organize the Taliban 25 years ago, were supporting the Taliban over the summer. ABC News has seen evidence of Pak government ID cards found among deceased fighters, but could not verify their authenticity.
Other intelligence sources said that Biden and his team of advisers had reached their decision about the U.S. military's withdrawal -- which was all but completed on July 4 -- based on a variety of factors that went beyond Kabul's fate.
A senior congressional official who asked not to be named in order to discuss sensitive briefings told ABC News that intelligence officers had warned the U.S. leaders about a swift and total victory by the fundamentalist Talibs who had held power in Kabul during the late 1990s up until after the Sept. 11 attacks.
"The intelligence community assessment has always been accurate; they just disregarded it," the official told ABC News, speaking about the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... Among the intelligence that sources said was shared with the administration were claims that some members of Pakistain's intelligence services, who helped create and organize the Taliban 25 years ago, were supporting the Taliban over the summer. ABC News has seen evidence of Pak government ID cards found among deceased fighters, but could not verify their authenticity.
Appearing on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday morning, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken mostly dodged questions about the administration's miscalculations, insisting that "this is manifestly not Saigon" -- even as live video from Kabul showed helicopters ferrying American officials out of the U.S. embassy compound to the military side of Kabul's airport.
Blinken had said for months that such a collapse was possible, but highly unlikely. Pressed in June by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) during a Foreign Affairs Committee oversight hearing on the growing crisis, Blinken said, "I don't think it's going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday. I wouldn't necessarily equate the departure of our forces in July, August or by early September with some kind of immediate deterioration in the situation."
In May, the U.S. special envoy leading talks with the Taliban leadership in Doha, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , had also told the House committee that fears about a total fall of the Afghan government were misplaced.
"I personally believe that the predictions that the Afghan forces will collapse right away -- they are not right," said Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad. "We will help, we are helping them now. We will help them. This is our commitment."
Now, thousands of Afghans who worked for the U.S. military or fought side-by-side with American forces -- including those still in the pipeline for special immigrant visas -- fear Taliban reprisals in occupied cities such as Kabul.
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Appearing on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday morning, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken mostly dodged questions about the administration's miscalculations, insisting that.... "this is manifestly not Saigon"
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At least the South Vietnamese turned back the first invasion of the country by the North. Then the Donk Congress cut all aid money making the second one successful.
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I believe that much of the ABC reporting over the last five days has been a grain of truth covered by bullshit. If the CIA had been so insistent it certainly did not get that point across to the NYTimes, which has been its media handmaiden and whose ability to PYA and CYA is almost as notorious as that practiced by the CIA itself.
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^^^
Damn, that was great, (LMAO)
I wonder if I can replicate her test results ?
I'm going to give it several 'shots' with
the stuff I have on hand...
I'll check back tomorrow with the results...
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^^^
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The onlyn side effect eye can deetect is I missed my Della Plane, is it tomorrow yeat ?
You supported him against that dreadful Donald Trump? You voted for him last November? Then you own this outcome, buddy — no excuses accepted.
[BREITBART] The fall of Afghanistan has shocked Obama’s former ambassador to such a degree that he is now questioning President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... ’s ability to lead the nation.Speaking with The Spokesman-Review, Ryan Crocker, who served as Obama’s ambassador from 2011 to 2012, lamented that the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra) ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... failed to see the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s swift takeover when preparing for the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
"I think the direction was predictable; the trajectory was not," he said. "What President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter...... has done is to embrace the Afghan policy of President Trump, and this is the outcome."
Just a little over a month ago, Joe Biden rejected assertions that U.S. withdrawal would lead to another "Fall of Saigon" moment, wherein Americans and their allies would be fleeing Kabul as the country crumbled around them.
"Mr. President, some Vietnamese veterans see echoes of their experience in this withdrawal in Afghanistan. Do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam?" Biden was asked on July 8.
"None whatsoever," Biden replied. "Zero. What you had is you had entire brigades breaking through the gates of our embassy — six, if I’m not mistaken. The Taliban is not the South — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy in the — of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable."
While Crocker was critical of former President Trump’s plan to withdraw from Afghanistan and negotiate with the Taliban, he believed the Biden administration should have been ready to provide adequate air support to Afghan forces stationed throughout the country. In February of last year, then-President Trump said his administration’s agreement of withdrawal would be contingent upon the Taliban’s cooperation.
"If bad things happen, we’ll go back," Trump said.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo equally promised, "Today, we are realistic. We are seizing the best opportunity for peace in a generation. Today, we are restrained. We recognize that America shouldn’t fight in perpetuity in the graveyard of empires if we can help Afghans forge peace."
The spectacle of the Taliban overtaking Kabul as the United States withdrawals could have consequences for years to come, according to Crocker, who fears that Islamists will now have a calling card of victory to better its recruiting strategies.
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Joe Biden is not a typical POTUS. He is a criminal just as the Taliban are criminals. He entered the Oval Office through a massive election fraud operation for nefarious reasons. He does not care about the Afghan people. He does not care about the American people. As he said today it is not his fault. In his evil mind his responsibilities are to his corrupt party and his own criminal agenda.
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After the party of payoff and backstabbing just got bu+tf@K'd on international TV, they know they can't wheel out the potato. The Emmy should go to those who have played along with a straight face.
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Atlantic Tropical Season has been filled with lots of named storms (three are currently active) but relatively weak ones. TS Fred fits that profile - some areas will get a lot of rain, almost no storm surge, almost no wind damage.
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[Stars & Stripes] The spectacular collapse of Afghanistan's military that has allowed Taliban fighters to reach the gates of Kabul on Sunday despite 20 years of training and billions of dollars in American aid began with a series of deals brokered in rural villages between the militant group and some of the Afghan government's lowest ranking officials.
The deals, initially offered early last year, were often described by Afghan officials as cease-fires, but Taliban leaders were in fact offering money in exchange for government forces to hand over their weapons, according to an Afghan officer and U.S. official.
Over the next year and a half, the meetings advanced to the district level and then rapidly on to provincial capitals, culminating in a breathtaking series of negotiated surrenders by government forces, according to interviews with over a dozen Afghan officers, police, Special Operations troops and other soldiers.
During just the past week, more than a dozen provincial capitals have fallen to Taliban forces with little or no resistance. Early Sunday morning, the government-held city of Jalalabad surrendered to the militants without a shot fired, and security forces in the districts ringing Kabul simply melted away. Within hours, Taliban forces reached the Afghan capital's four main entrances unopposed.
The pace of the military collapse has stunned many American officials and other foreign observers, forcing the U.S. government to dramatically accelerate efforts to remove personnel from its Kabul embassy.
The Taliban capitalized on the uncertainty caused by the February 2020 agreement reached in Doha, Qatar, between the militant group and the United States calling for a full American withdrawal from Afghanistan. Some Afghan forces realized they would soon no longer be able to count on American air power and other crucial battlefield support and grew receptive to the Taliban's approaches.
"Some just wanted the money," an Afghan Special Forces officer said of those who first agreed to meet with the Taliban. But others saw the U.S. commitment to a full withdrawal as an "assurance" the militants would return to power in Afghanistan and wanted to secure their place on the winning side, he said. The officer spoke on the condition of anonymity because he, like others in this report, were not authorized to disclose information to the press.
The Doha agreement, designed to bring an end to the war in Afghanistan, instead left many Afghan forces demoralized, bringing into stark relief the corrupt impulses of many Afghan officials and their tenuous loyalty to the country's central government. Some police officers complained that they had not been paid in six months or more.
"They saw that document as the end," the officer said referring to the majority of Afghans aligned with the government. "The day the deal was signed we saw the change. Everyone was just looking out for himself. It was like (the United States) left us to fail."
The negotiated surrenders to the Taliban slowly gained pace in the months following the Doha deal, according to a U.S. official and an Afghan officer. Then, after President Joe Biden announced in April that U.S. forces would withdraw from Afghanistan this summer without conditions, the capitulations began to snowball.
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It was like (the United States) left us to fail.
And you're importing thousands of these habitual ingrates. Think of what sentiment their offspring will grow up bearing. Think of when they'll find the BLOMs and teefas and CAIRs and ISNAs.
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^ I thought that was the plan for the country club/chamber of commerce Trunks. They play the Washington Generals to the Socialist Globetrotters. The give the Socialist the cover to use the term bi-partisan.
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rj and P2k, it doesn't work that way. I have the sample ballot right here on my desk. There are two questions on the ballot.
First question: Should Newsom be recalled?
Second question: Which of the listed candidates should replace him?
If the majority vote yes on the first question, the top vote getter on the second question is elected. If the majority vote no on the first question then the second question is moot.
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A lot of Californians, including most Republicans, even the country club and chamber of commerce types, are seriously pissed off at Newsom. Yes, I believe he will cheat by mail and any other way he can. The question is whether he can cheat enough.
I believe the Hispanic vote will not be reliably in his favor this time. Many Hispanics have been badly hurt by Newsom's lockdowns. Anybody who owned or worked in a restaurant got screwed. Anybody who had to miss work to stay home with kids got screwed. A lot of those people are Hispanics and they know they have Newsom to blame. Landlords got screwed.
And then, Elder is black so the black vote will not be reliably in Newsom's favor.
On TV, Newsom isn't saying anything on his own behalf. Instead, he has Elizabeth Warren trying to tell us that the recall is a waste of tax dollars, as if Newsom hasn't squandered billions. I don't believe anybody is dumb enough to believe Fauxcahontas.
Newsom can count on white liberals in the Bay Area and Los Angeles and he can count on the bogus vote. This time it might not be enough.
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Newsom will survive easily on the first question. No matter how badly he has done the 'people' are more afraid of the unknown being worse.
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Elder is straight out o' Crenshaw. Dems are gonna find that their usual constituents are suddenly AWOL. They're gonna have to cheat their way back bigtime.
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^ that didn't stop them last November - their attitude is "so what".
L.A.’s Black population has declined by 100,000 since the 1980s, falling from 13% of the County population to 8% in just a few decades. Hollywood alone saw the displacement of 13,000 Latinos between 2000 and 2010, pushed out by rising rents to make way for upscale redevelopment. These are just two of the most eye-popping figures that illustrate a larger point: Los Angeles is increasingly becoming solely accessible to the rich, and the rich are disproportionately white. (“Black and Mexican households have one cent for every dollar of wealth held by the average white household,” according to The Color of Wealth in Los Angeles.)
We are witnessing the rapid creation of a new geography of segregation and exclusion in Los Angeles, as areas seen as desirable are being purged of those who cannot afford the sky-high rents that inevitably follow.
The Westside and Downtown are linking up to create a contiguous zone where only wealthy people can afford to live, expanding into areas that have historically been populated by lower-income communities of color, predominantly Black and/or Latin@. What’s already happened to Silver Lake and Echo Park is proceeding full-steam ahead in places like Crenshaw, South Central, Boyle Heights, and Inglewood.
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Was based upon 2016 Data - LA. is for the Rich - You guys are stuck and repeating myths - have a read.
Elder would be good for the State, but faces an uphill battle not on race, but on Newsome's invested friends, family (related to Pelosi), and their associates, business or otherwise, immediate and 1 or 2 removed. Newsome has a huge following, and they don't want their political bullet train to end.
#2
apparently the Dept of Agriculture authorization act has a provision allowing adjustment of the SNAP benefits based on price changes and availability of products
the 'availability' is subjective and allows political rather than administrative judgements
fwiw, a family of 4 can receive as much as $600/mo of SNAP benefits currently
SNAP benefits have become part of the illegal drug market as beneficiaries buy soft drinks with their SNAP, sell the soft drinks for cash or equivalent and use the cash to buy opioids or whatever
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My family of two spends about $400 per month on food and other grocery store purchases and we don't even try to shop with a budget in mind.
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/\ I don't think so CF. I suspect it fell much faster than the administration anticipated. The WH was hoping for a September EXFIL. The Taliban took the USAID (or somebody's) money, flipped local officials and the Afghan Army.
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...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan....
...Arabic for 
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
...founded by our old friend Abu Bakar Bashir of Al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah fame, JAD translates cleverly as Partisans of the 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[Independent] A new photo from the evacuation of Kabul reveals how nearly 650 Afghans were crammed onto one US Air Force transport plane in the scramble to escape the Taliban.
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
...Arabic for 
...knaves, footpads, and 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
...knaves, footpads, and 
[All Africa] Human rights groups have warmly welcomed the official clarification made by The 
[NYPOST] At least 16 people were 
[TOWNHALL] Ignore those pictures of the Afghan army that our military 
...Faux Republican hereditary congresswoman-for-life from Wyoming. She has been described as 
[BLOOMBERG] President 
...knaves, footpads, and 
...Arabic for 
...knaves, footpads, and 
Appearing on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday morning, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken mostly dodged questions about the administration's miscalculations, insisting that.... "this is manifestly not Saigon" 
